Neither Contrived Nor Exceptional: The finding of signs and symptoms of multiple personality in the life and work of more than one hundred writers.

It is best to visit this blog on a device that is large enough for you to see the sidebar, use search, and comfortably read at length, because if you read only one or a few of the more than eight hundred posts (since the blog began in 2013), you may think that the finding of multiple personality in a particular writer is either contrived or exceptional.

This site is a blog in that I continually add posts, a few of which are timely comments on articles or news. But it is best to think of this site as a serial book, because most posts from past years are just as important as recent ones, often more important; they are just about different writers and different aspects of literature and multiple personality.

The complete understanding of recent posts often depends on having read past posts.

For example, my recent post on the interview of Elena Ferrante in The Paris Review consisted of nothing but quotations from the interview. I didn’t explain how various things in the quotations were indicative of multiple personality. I simply can’t keep explaining what readers of past posts would readily appreciate.

To read only recent posts is like skipping the earlier chapters in a book.

Much of the credibility of this blog is entailed in the large and diverse group of writers I have studied and quoted. There are now too many writers for an open-minded person to think that my findings [on any one writer] are contrived or exceptional.